Show No. 62: In Public and Private Spaces – A Contrast in ‘How’ We Share Grief.

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Host, Nancy Duffy

Burt Reynolds passed away today – on the very date of this recording, preceded of course by the legendary Queen of Soul – Aretha Franklin, and renowned U.S. Senator, John McCain.

Today we explore the stark contrast of how grief unfolds in the public sphere by very public people in comparison to how personal grief unfolds in the same kind of public sphere (if we count social media as being the equivalent).

This idea might have begun with the closely-timed collective losses of Aretha Franklin, John McCain – and most recently Burt Reynolds. It was in the public sphere where we watched the influential pay their respects, while also airing their grievances.Private citizens, however, appear to do their remembering and mourning in public – much differently.

Grief is not a politically minded space – is it? It’s just us.

In this show, I refer to this great feed below:

What’s the thing you miss about a lost loved one that surprised you most? Tell me. I’ll start.

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@AndreSobolewski One can only claim "we had no choice" for so long. There has to be another way - and that is a solution for city planners, environmentalists, engineers to work on. But surely, after so many raw sewage dumps someone has to make put this on the agenda somewhere.

@AndreSobolewski To clarify Andre, the claim I made was that this dumping has happened before and in 2015 mayor Denis Coderre at the time said he "had no choice" - that the infrastructure just wasn't there. This happened again in Feb of this year - is now happening once again in Longueuil.